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...taken to court by citizens seeking to abridge, massively perhaps, the most fundamental weapon of a free press: the right of a newspaper to keep its sources confidential. If governments or citizens can force newspapers to reveal the sources of their information, the free flow of reporting that Lippmann described as essential to freedom of the press will be seriously impaired. A news source who can be identified can all too easily be "fired or discredited," in the immortal words of White House aide Patrick Buchanan. The ultimate loser is neither the newspaper nor the source, but the public. Information...
Along with Walter Lippmann and David Lawrence, Krock helped perfect the form of the serious political column. Lippmann offered the perspective of history; Lawrence offered polemics; Krock encompassed both. He usually began his syndicated column "In the Nation" with a recitation of what some political leader had told him and then vented his opinions about it-generally conservative. Though he wrote in a ponderous style, his comments invariably commanded the attention of political leaders. "He had a lot of clout where it counted. He sure as hell wasn't for the subway trade," remembers Fellow Columnist William S. White...
...magazine's flair for bright commentary. For the purchase price of $380,000 (plus a somewhat larger amount in pending taxes), Peretz has also acquired a special responsibility: to maintain the unusual character that the New Republic has acquired in American journalism since earlier writers like Walter Lippmann, Bruce Bliven and Edmund Wilson began burnishing its pages...
Kennedy listed a series of candidates for the proposed "brainwashing." The list included The New York Times, Walter Lippmann '10, Marcus Childs and Joseph Alsop. The fifth entry on the list was "key bureau chiefs...
...letter to Kennedy written just after the 1960 election, Schlesinger proposed Lippmann, a liberal journalist, for the post of U.S. ambassador to France...